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Caribbean & Central America - January 2005
PANAMA: Reforms provoke outcry
As this issue goes to press, President Martín Torrijos is the most popular head of state in Latin America. This is unlikely to be the case by the time the next issue comes around. Torrijos announced his long-awaited fiscal reform bill on 12 January. It went down badly with big business, which will be most affected by the bill, and unions began a week of protests on 24 January.
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